Overseas industrial parks (OIPs) offer platforms to host countries for foreign and domestic company agglomeration in key industries to promote economic development. This study examined 126 Chinese OIPs in “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) countries to study the productive effects in the host...

This study evaluated the organizational resilience of Chinese listed companies under extreme heat events based on the cumulative abnormal return of stocks during severe environmental disturbances. Based on institutional, stakeholder, and risk management theories, the extreme heat event in August...

We examine the relationship between the usage of household clean cooking fuels in rural areas and elderly’s overall well-being using micro survey data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). We make two key innovations to the literature. First, we move one step...

We examine the indirect impact of price deals, which occurs through the formation of expected future prices, on households' purchase decisions. Two competing learning processes of households' formation of expected future deals that lead to opposite predictions are proposed. Under a...

This study explores the extent to which farmers in the Three Gorges Reservoir area remain highly dependent on agriculture despite rapid urbanization and industrialization. The study focuses on the factors that determine a household’s choice of livelihood strategy, with a particular focus on...

Social Network Theory and methods have emerged as pivotal tools for dissecting intricate interdisciplinary issues in rural communities. This study aims to systematically delineate the application characteristics and trends of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in rural community research. Using a...